Welfare and capitalism in postwar Japan /
Estâevez-Abe, Margarita,1962-
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-327) and index.
Rashomon: the Japanese welfare state in a comparative perspective -- Structural logics of welfare politics -- Historical patterns of structural logic in postwar Japan -- The rise of the Japanese social protection system in the 1950s -- Economic growth and Japan's selective welfare expansion -- Institutional complemetarities and the Japanese welfare capitalism -- The emergence of trouble in the 1970s -- Policy shifts in the 1990s: the emergence of European-style welfare politics -- The end of Japan's social protection as we know it: becoming like Britain?
Public welfare
Welfare state